The PlateToList workflow converts a table to a list in different formats using the ‘Append Plate Well IDs’ node. I would like to pass the plate size as a variable. However, the node seems to accept neither string nor integer format (see attached screenshots and knwf). There is no information as to the correct format of the variable. I was just assuming that it is the same as in the manual config (e.g. string ‘384-Well’).
The Append Plate Well IDs Node is looking for one of the following plate size tags:
SIX
TWELVE
TWENTY_FOUR
FORTY_EIGHT
NINETY_SIX
THREE_EIGHT_FOUR
ONE_FIVE_THREE_SIX
For your specific workflow example, I imagine you can use a String Manipulation node to join the Number Columns and Number Rows variables into something that looks like (16,24) and then use some rules to look this up in a dictionary and return the flow variable THREE_EIGHT_FOUR.
Thanks for picking this up - it was done this way to constrain the input to the standard plate sizes. With hindsight, it might have been possible to pick this up from a numerical value saved in the settings. I will think about whether there is a way to do that without breaking backwards compatibility.
